2006 · action · drama · romance
Fanaa
Directed by Kunal Kohli2h 48m2006
Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.
Our read: Fanaa (2006) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded action · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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